figment of one's imagination
Purely invented notion
A figment of one's imagination is something that exists only in the mind—not real, but mistakenly believed or perceived to be.
The phrase typically dismisses or questions whether something actually happened: Was that noise real or just a figment of my imagination?
It can also challenge someone's claims: The conspiracy is a figment of your imagination.
- phantasmIllusory supernatural appearance
- mirageAtmospheric optical deception
- trick of the lightMisleading visual perception
- ghostApparition of the dead
- wishful thinkingBelief shaped by desire
false memory · chimera · smoke and mirrors · fable · tall tale · hallucination · shadow · delusion · pipe dream · pie in the sky · veil · cognitive bias · myth · mist · blur · apparition · fairy tale · haze
figment of one's imaginationreality
What actually exists
fact · actuality · truth · real thing · physical reality
figment of one's imaginationverified account
Authenticated social media identity
eyewitness account · historical record · matter of record · empirical evidence · hard evidence
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